#Honestly tho could swap being sent to the oar line with him getting chucked into the grand canyon on fire 🤷🏻

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Ben Hurr, but set in the Fallout Universe with Joshua Graham being Ben Hurr and Edward Sallow/Caesar being Messala

Obviously would need to do some further tweaking to the story as an adaptation but-

Come on; two dudes who were besties and one of them becomes a Roman Tribune and Leader while the other stays devout to his Religion and his people despite Roman pressure. He gets falsely accused, imprisoned, but eventually is freed from slavery and comes back to face his Childhood friend on the Roman stage through the power of vengeance and faith.

Literally the first main part of that movie is about Messala coming back to their hometown to help rule over it as "Rightful Roman Territory" and doesn't understand why his own childhood best friend, Ben Hurr, would be so devout to his God and thinks he should tell his people of Judaea to stop rebelling against Rome because Rome rules all now, including them... Conflict and complex relationship dynamic ensues

Could be a cool AU type thing 👀